I have walked behind the sky. For what are you seeking? The fathomless blue of Bliss.’

In this conversation, psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster will explore the consequences of Freud’s theory of the death drive. Working in silence, hiding in plain sight, a kind of relentless negative pull or rift, what kind of attempts can we make to work with the death drive and begin to mark a limit? Looking at dreams, unfolding sessions in psychoanalysis, the making of art, and political activism, we will think about the death drive in the contemporary landscape. We will pay particular attention to the problem of the visual in relation to the internet, the age of information, and iPhones.

Join fashion historian Caroline Evans and fashion writer Dal Chodha for a talk focused on the history and contemporary responses/anxieties about the fashion runway format.

Tessel Veneboer will lead a workshop on Kathy Acker’s plagiarism, pseudo-autobiograpy, and sexual politics. We will read from "The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula” (1975) and “Dead Doll Humility” (1990) to consider how Acker’s auto-plagiarism reverses the logic of autofiction and undermines the sex-positive feminism of écriture féminine.

Not knowing is it’s unpower.

Sign up for *Notes on the Anatomy of Systemic Enjoyment* - a workshop with Mohamad Dib that will provide an overview of Lacan’s theory of the four discourses and will discuss its relevance for thinking about the relation between capitalist abstraction and affective economies.

The judgement of interesting not only highlights but also protracts and extends the dialogic underpinnings of all taste

Material beyond extraction! Kinship beyond the nuclear family!